Aggressive colonial ascidian impacting deep coral reefs at Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Coral Reefs

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 245-245

  Sommer, B ^a   Harrison, P L ^a   Scheffers, S R ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COLONIAL ORGANISM; CORAL REEF;

BONAIRE; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

ANTHOZOA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA;

EID: 76149108396     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0579-4     Document Type: Article

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